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70
Citations
36443
World Ranking
1822
National Ranking
926

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For her seminal work on distributed hash tables, a fundamental contribution to the design of large-scale distributed and decentralized computing systems.
  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sylvia Ratnasamy is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science with significant contributions in subfields such as computer networks and communications, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and hardware and architecture.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, including:

  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

Recent publications by Sylvia Ratnasamy include:

  • "Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible" (2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review)
  • "TimeCrypt: Encrypted Data Stream Processing at Scale with Cryptographic Access Control" (2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data, ETH Zurich)
  • "Droplet: Decentralized Authorization and Access Control for Encrypted Data Streams" (2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data, ETH Zurich)
  • "3PO: Programmed Far-Memory Prefetching for Oblivious Applications" (2022, arXiv, Cornell University)
  • "Human-Scale Computing: A Case for Progressive Narrow Waist for Internet Applications" (2023, arXiv, Cornell University)

Their frequent co-authors include Silvery Fu, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Aurojit Panda, and Lukas Burkhalter. These collaborators have contributed to multiple works with Ratnasamy, indicating ongoing research relationships.

Publication venues where the scientist has often published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 9 publications
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) with 2 publications
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review with 1 publication
  • Communications of the ACM with 1 publication

Sylvia Ratnasamy has received several awards, including the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014 for contributions to distributed hash tables and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2012.

Best Publications

  • A scalable content-addressable network

    Sylvia Ratnasamy;Paul Francis;Mark Handley;Richard Karp

  • Making gnutella-like P2P systems scalable

    Yatin Chawathe;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Lee Breslau;Nick Lanham

  • Topologically-aware overlay construction and server selection

    S. Ratnasamy;M. Handley;R. Karp;S. Shenker

  • GHT: a geographic hash table for data-centric storage

    Sylvia Ratnasamy;Brad Karp;Li Yin;Fang Yu

  • Geographic routing without location information

    Ananth Rao;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Christos Papadimitriou;Scott Shenker

  • Making middleboxes someone else's problem: network processing as a cloud service

    Justine Sherry;Shaddi Hasan;Colin Scott;Arvind Krishnamurthy

  • Reducing network energy consumption via sleeping and rate-adaptation

    Sergiu Nedevschi;Lucian Popa;Gianluca Iannaccone;Sylvia Ratnasamy

  • Application-Level Multicast Using Content-Addressable Networks

    Sylvia Ratnasamy;Mark Handley;Richard M. Karp;Scott Shenker

  • The impact of DHT routing geometry on resilience and proximity

    K. Gummadi;R. Gummadi;S. Gribble;S. Ratnasamy

  • Data-centric storage in sensornets with GHT, a geographic hash table

    Sylvia Ratnasamy;Brad Karp;Scott Shenker;Deborah Estrin

  • RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers

    Mihai Dobrescu;Norbert Egi;Katerina Argyraki;Byung-Gon Chun

  • OpenDHT: a public DHT service and its uses

    Sean Rhea;Brighten Godfrey;Brad Karp;John Kubiatowicz

  • Design and implementation of a consolidated middlebox architecture

    Vyas Sekar;Norbert Egi;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Michael K. Reiter

  • FairCloud: sharing the network in cloud computing

    Lucian Popa;Gautam Kumar;Mosharaf Chowdhury;Arvind Krishnamurthy

  • Routing Algorithms for DHTs: Some Open Questions

    Sylvia Ratnasamy;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Ion Stoica;Scott Shenker

  • Data-centric storage in sensornets

    Scott Shenker;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Brad Karp;Ramesh Govindan

  • Beacon vector routing: scalable point-to-point routing in wireless sensornets

    Rodrigo Fonseca;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Jerry Zhao;Cheng Tien Ee

  • Making sense of performance in data analytics frameworks

    Kay Ousterhout;Ryan Rasti;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Scott Shenker

  • A layered naming architecture for the internet

    Hari Balakrishnan;Karthik Lakshminarayanan;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Scott Shenker

  • FairCloud: sharing the network in cloud computing

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  • Internet Indirection Infrastructure

    Ion Stoica;Daniel Adkins;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Scott Shenker

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley
Aurojit Panda
Aurojit Panda New York University
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Arvind Krishnamurthy University of Washington
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin Cornell University
Byung-Gon Chun
Byung-Gon Chun Seoul National University
Kevin Fall
Kevin Fall Association for Computing Machinery
Richard M. Karp
Richard M. Karp University of California, Berkeley
Mark Handley
Mark Handley University College London
Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California

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